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Logarithmic scale in a DensityPlot and its legend

I was recently faced with the task of creating a DensityPlot with a logarithmic colour scale, and with providing it with an appropriate legend. Since I could not find any resources to this effect on ...
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Complex valued 2+1D PDE Schrödinger equation, numerical method for `NDSolve`?

Based on the heat equation of the Mathematica Manual tutorial, I wrote the complex counterpart (Schrödinger) equation, for the free particle propagation of an initial wavepacket. ...
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Numerically solving Helmholtz equation in 3D for arbitrary shapes

Context While studying manifold Learning I got interested in finding the eigenvectors of the Laplacian. (also in connection to this problem of solving the heat equation) Following this and that ...
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Test a wooden board's vibration mode

Here is a wooden board, with dimensions shown on the picture below. How we can use Mathematica's newly build-in finite element analysis features to show the different modes of its vibrations. Assuming ...
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Circular membrane vibration simulation

I'm new in Mathematica and I'm trying to simulate the vibration of a circular membrane for math project but I don't even know how to start. The wave equation describes the displacement of the ...
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Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on an arbitrary mesh

So, I've constructed a mesh over which I'd like to find eigenfunctions of Laplace's equation with a free boundary (a zero Neumann boundary condition along the edge). Mostly because I figured an ...
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Numerically solving Helmholtz equation in 2D for a Guitar

Hi I am new to using Mathematica, so am not too confident. I am essentially trying to model vibrations of a guitar sound board for a project. It would be great to get some visualisations of the ...
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Gaining precision/accuracy with NDEigenvalues

See further down for an important note Background I study (one component of) the semi-classical Pauli operator, $$ P_h=-h^2\Delta+ih(-y,x)\cdot\nabla+\frac{x^2+y^2}{4}-h. $$ For this particular ...
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Schrödinger equation for a hydrogen atom and lack of memory

I'm trying to solve the Schrödinger equation for a hydrogen atom in the Cartesian coordinate system. This is my code ...
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Comparing analytical solution with numerical solution of Helmholtz equation in a unit square

I am just learning PDE, and I am interested to compare analytical solution with numerical solution of Helmholtz equation in a unit square with zero boundary condition. I am not sure if it possible. ...
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NDEigenvalues complains not Hermitian with large dimension differential operator

The following snippet calculates eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a null operator (just as an example): ...
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Inconsistent behaviour between Active and Inactive forms of PDEs (finite element method)

Bug introduced in 13.0 or earlier and fixed in 13.1.0 I have been using the finite element tools in Mathematica version 13.0 to solve eigenvalue problems in physics (Schrödinger equation) using ...
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Finding eigenvalues for Laplacian operator for 3D shape with Neumann boundary conditions

I've just begun to use the Mathematica so my question may seem to be naive. To get a solution for my problem I looked at the example provided in help. ...
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NDEigensystem: 1D problem with discontinuous coefficients

I am trying to use NDEigensystem to solve the 1D problem -cs[x]^2 vx''[x] = w^2 vx[x] with vx[x] and w the eigenfunction and eigenvalue. The coefficient cs[x] is discontinuous at x = -xp, +xp and vx[x]...
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How to control DifferenceOrder in NDEigenvalue for an ODE?

I am trying to solve the eigenvalue problem of a 1st-order ODE system using NDEigenvalue. It should be finite difference method for ODE. And I want to tune the the ...
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